What are you not allowed to answer?

Answer 1

The questions we are not supposed to answer are the questions that are prohibited. If a question is asking how to commit suicide or how to commit a crime, then giving the types of answers requested might get the answerers blocked. Or if a question is a cyberbullying question, then answering it in the spirit it is asked can get a formal warning or a block. Similar is true if the asker requests porn sites or inappropriate content, and someone gives them what they want.

Here are the types of questions you should report rather than answer:

1. Inappropriate subject matter - If someone asks for intimate details about any person, don't give out such details nor speculate on them. If someone asks where to find offensive or nude photos, don't give any links.

2. Cyberbullying - If others ask why a classmate has offensive body odor, don't answer saying that they eat or rub themselves with body waste. If someone asks why someone is gay or promiscuous, don't give answers that seem to support that position. One telltale sign of cyberbullying is when someone asks something offensive and answers it with fabricated details. So if you answer the question in the spirit it is asked, it is possible supers may assume you are the cyberbully using another IP or account.

3. Suicide and self-harm - If someone asks how to kill themselves, do not give them instructions or advise that they kill themselves. Likewise, don't give instructions on how to vomit to someone asking how they can give themselves an eating disorder. Nor tell someone wanting body mods or who suffers apotemnophiliahow to do things themselves.

4. Crime instruction - If someone asks how to steal, kill, rape, etc., don't tell them. If someone asks how to hack software or where to get a registration crack, don't tell them.